This is a windowmanager, quite old and fast.
Info: http://www.windowmaker.info/
Download (1.8 MB):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... 0-i486.pet
or:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/dotpups/ ... 0-i486.pet
Screenshot:
full size: http://noforum.de/pics/Wmaker.jpg
It has no taskbar, instead it uses small icons.
So you might like to use it with the Gnome-panel.
lxpanel can not display a taskbar in windowmaker.
Start it with
xwin wmaker
Issues:
You can run a config-tool, it is the 3rd icon from top on the right side.
It does not display pictures.
This is a bug you can find often in google, but I found no solution.
Mark
WindowMaker 0.92.0
WindowMaker 0.92.0
Last edited by MU on Fri 01 Aug 2008, 08:23, edited 1 time in total.
Windowmaker!
After touring window managers again, I return to Windowmaker! It's the only one that's easy enough for me.
I haven't tried this Puppy one, but am about to. I run Windowmaker in Debian Linux (Sidux) but learned to love it in Suse Linux.
I haven't tried this Puppy one, but am about to. I run Windowmaker in Debian Linux (Sidux) but learned to love it in Suse Linux.
Displaying pictures in configuation utility
I found out how to display pictures in the Window Maker Preferences utility.
I noted that Windowmaker seemed to expect the icons in this directory:
/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/
On another computer, I discovered a /tiffs directory that contained the icons needed
In Puppy, I had to create some empty directories to imitate the path that Windowmaker expected.
Then I put the /tiffs directory and the icons in it in
/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/tiffs
And the picures appeared! As a bonus, you get a slider that gives you more options than you have without pictures.
That seems to solve the problem. There is probably a better solution, but I accept working!
By the way, if anyone tries to install the Windowmaker pup above, note that the command you use to start it, after ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of your other window manager, is
xwin wmaker
I first tried xwin windowmaker but it's no big surprise that didn't work.
Windowmaker is great and easy and I don't understand why its popularity ebbed.
I noted that Windowmaker seemed to expect the icons in this directory:
/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/
On another computer, I discovered a /tiffs directory that contained the icons needed
In Puppy, I had to create some empty directories to imitate the path that Windowmaker expected.
Then I put the /tiffs directory and the icons in it in
/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/tiffs
And the picures appeared! As a bonus, you get a slider that gives you more options than you have without pictures.
That seems to solve the problem. There is probably a better solution, but I accept working!
By the way, if anyone tries to install the Windowmaker pup above, note that the command you use to start it, after ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of your other window manager, is
xwin wmaker
I first tried xwin windowmaker but it's no big surprise that didn't work.
Windowmaker is great and easy and I don't understand why its popularity ebbed.
I've been using windowmaker for years and it has me so spoiled with its' good beahoviour that I find it hard to use anything else. Sometimes I play around a few minutes with icewm and it would be my second choice.
I've built up a pretty large collection of wmaker related stuff which you might want to have a look at here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ndowMaker/
In particular, I have most of the patches ever available for wmaker -the best feature to add is the command history for the run box.
I also got the sound server working so you can have desktop sound events.
The patches are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... Resources/
And the patch order can be seen here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... er.src2pkg
Another very intersting thing is that I run wmaker without the dock or the clip. I can still use dockapps, but they are not in the dock. This cuts down on desktop clutter and menory usage.
My< desktop consists of the ROX-Filer-1.2 for the desktop icons, wmaker and a panel -either taskbar or fbpanel. Very nice and intuitive to use.
I have a collection of nearly 60 DockApps here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... /DockApps/
All of these DockApps are updated to run correctly with wmaker-0.92.
I also have miniwindows disabled so that there is never any extra clutter on the desktop -otherwise each running applixation will show an extra icon -a minimized apps shows two! I let the panel handle minmized windows so I don't need the mini-windows.
Here's a bit of code which makes the above behaviour work:
The above should be the contents of your WMWindowAttributes file in your HOME/GNUstep/Defaults directory. You should edit the file to have that content while *not* running windowmaker.
Here's a screenshot that shows how this all fits together:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... eams-1.png
Hope you get a laugh out of the backgroun image -it's one of the funniest things I ever saw...
I've built up a pretty large collection of wmaker related stuff which you might want to have a look at here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ndowMaker/
In particular, I have most of the patches ever available for wmaker -the best feature to add is the command history for the run box.
I also got the sound server working so you can have desktop sound events.
The patches are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... Resources/
And the patch order can be seen here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... er.src2pkg
Another very intersting thing is that I run wmaker without the dock or the clip. I can still use dockapps, but they are not in the dock. This cuts down on desktop clutter and menory usage.
My< desktop consists of the ROX-Filer-1.2 for the desktop icons, wmaker and a panel -either taskbar or fbpanel. Very nice and intuitive to use.
I have a collection of nearly 60 DockApps here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... /DockApps/
All of these DockApps are updated to run correctly with wmaker-0.92.
I also have miniwindows disabled so that there is never any extra clutter on the desktop -otherwise each running applixation will show an extra icon -a minimized apps shows two! I let the panel handle minmized windows so I don't need the mini-windows.
Here's a bit of code which makes the above behaviour work:
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{
"ROX-Pinboard" = {
NoResizebar = Yes;
NoBorder = Yes;
KeepInsideScreen = Yes;
NoHideOthers = Yes;
SkipWindowList = Yes;
DontSaveSession = Yes;
NoCloseButton = Yes;
NoTitlebar = Yes;
NoMiniaturizeButton = Yes;
Omnipresent = Yes;
};
"ROX-Filer.ROX-Filer" = {
NoAppIcon = Yes;
SharedAppIcon = No;
};
"*" = {
NoAppIcon = Yes;
};
}
Here's a screenshot that shows how this all fits together:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... eams-1.png
Hope you get a laugh out of the backgroun image -it's one of the funniest things I ever saw...
Windowmaker new pet
I just posted a newly made pet of windowmaker (that seems fully functional) along with some "instructions" based on my own experience with it.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=32036
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=32036